Word: stuffers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lackey rushed, muttering, to Reuben's, an all-night restaurant which for reasons best known to its management, keeps such an example of the toy stuffer's art on sale. He bought two large specimens for $25 apiece. Bogart welcomed them jovially, handed one to Manhattan Wholesale Grocer Bill Seeman, his drinking companion, and with the other under his arm, departed for the much more elegant El Morocco. All in all, it was a small thing. A nothing. It was not as though he had settled down amid El Morocco's zebra-striped decor with a live...
Died. Charles Williams Nash, 84, hardheaded, rags-to-riches automaker; of a heart ailment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An unschooled farm boy who called himself the "most common cuss in the world," he rose from upholstery stuffer to general superintendent of a Michigan carriage company, turned to automaking in 1910 with William Durant (organizer of General Motors). He was made president of G.M. in 1912, four years later left to go on his own, finally retired from active management of Nash when it merged with Kelvinator...
Harvard, like many other colleges, long feared that attendance would stuffer if games were broadcast over the radio. The College has permitted broadcasts only for the last few years, since it became apparent that air accounts of grid contests actually helped stimulate interest--and gate receipts...
...Moines: Need color for story on Iowa Packing Co. walkout. What are duties of sausage stuffer? What is a check sealer? Or is it a scale checker...
...Moines' Iowa Packing Co., one H. Shapiro, a veteran who wanted to return as an 83f^-an-hour sausage stuffer instead of going back to his job as a 74^-an-hour check sealer, provided a test case for his union. After a four-day strike of 1,000 workers, the union won its demand that returning servicemen receive all promotions granted to colleagues in their absence...